It looks like the people of Livingston Parish are at least smart enough to know that introducing Creationism into the school curriculum is likely to bring about another Church/State lawsuit.
LIVINGSTON — The Livingston Parish School Board won’t try to include the teaching of creationism in this year’s curriculum, but has asked the School Board staff to look at the issue for possible future action, board officials said.
A decision to teach creationism could become expensive for the parish school system, said Marjorie Esman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
“If they were to do it, they could anticipate that any litigation would result in them not only losing, but having to pay enormous legal fees,” she said. “They would be wasting a huge amount of taxpayer money on a battle they can’t win.”
Livingston Parish School Board President Keith Martin, who acknowledges that the parish school system faces major financial challenges, said the cost of litigation does have to be taken into consideration.
“A lawsuit is something you always have to factor in because of finances of the board,” Martin said.
We're constantly told by the proponents of Creationism that introducing it into the curriculum is not about promoting a particular religion, but about teaching legitimate science. But, it seems pretty obvious that for at least one member of the School Board it's all about promiting his religion.
David Tate, the School Board member who brought up the matter at the board’s last meeting, said he would rather not see litigation, but added that the board gets sued on other matters.
“We don’t want litigation, but why not take a stand for Jesus and risk litigation,” Tate said.
Tate said teaching evolution as a theory is fine, but there are other ideas.
“Creationism is another thought of how things came into being,” he said. “Give every theory due time” in the classroom.
“We don’t all have to believe the same thing,” Tate said.
Tate must be a complete idiot. Louisiana has taken a stand for Jesus on this matter before and has always come out with the short end of the stick. I'm sure his comments above will be introduced as evidence by the ACLU if they do end up trying to inject Creationism into the curriculum later on down the road. These folks just do not get it. Education is not about giving equal time to whatever views people happen to hold. It's about learning the best scientific theories human beings have developed.
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